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Definition of Growths
1. growth [n] - See also: growth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Growths
Literary usage of Growths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"The needle was straight for attacking growths in the nasal passages, ... This was
a very long process, requiring in large growths from fifty to a hundred ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"The disease began early in 1888 as one of multiple bilateral benign polypi, with
recurrence toward the close of the year in a mixture of growths benign and ..."
3. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"In a chemical sense non-organized growths are composed both of unorganized ...
There are, upon the one side, undoubtedly new-growths representing perfect ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) General Symptoms Suggestive of Intracranial growths The general symptoms of
intracranial growth include: 1. Choked disk (90 per cent of cases). 2. ..."
5. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1909)
"ADENOID growths AS A CAUSE OF DEAFNESS* ONE common cause of partial deafness in
the school child is the presence in the naso-pharynx or back of the nose of ..."
6. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"EXAMINATION OF MORBID growths. Morbid growths are of common occurrence, ...
Sometimes these growths, as in the case of fatty and certain fibrous tumors, ..."
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